Spinning device.



C. M. OLMSTED.

SPINNING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY I8. I912.

Patented May 4, 1915.

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CHARLES MORGAN onmsrnn, or nurrano, new YORK.

SPINNING DEVICE. 3,138 14% Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 4 19111 original applicatiml filed October 1909, ia No. 520,678. Divided and this application filed May 18, 1912. Serial No. 698,120.

' T altwhom it may concern: hand, by which the handle is grasped, is re- B it known that I, CHARLES M. OLMsTEo, lieved of the twistwhich it would get were e of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State the cord simply pulled on a straig t line in of New York, have invented certain new and a known way. I

useful Improvements in Spinning Devices; In using the foot to increase the spinning and I do hereby declare the followingto be power, the foot may be placed upon the cord a full, clear, and exact description of the in- 7, between the hook .10, and the hook 9, and vention, such as will enable others skilled in then depressed. If this is done, the foot the art to which it appertains to make and slidab y engages the cord. If it is preferred 10 use the same. to have the foot fixedly engage the cord, the

The primary object of this invention is to loop 8, is removed from hook 9, and cord 7,

provide a simple and highly efiicient spinafter being noosed over foot, is caught over ning device for flying toys whereby less hook 9, and the foot depressed. Hook 9,

speed of the hand in unwinding the spinnow becomes a means which slidably secures '15 mng cord is required, at the same time the the cord to the lower end of the handle.

50 the spool. By securing the free end of the 1. A spinning device for toys comprising unwinding. balancing the twist, which would, without i t, lnthe accompanying drawings, Figure 1 disturb the aim of the supporting hand. 20 isa i'iewin perspectiv Fig. 2 is a vertical While it is preferable to catch the cord over 7 longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3' is a hook 9, w en using the cord noosed to the etail. I a foot, the virtue of hook 10, may be utilized Referring to the drawings, .1 designatesa without doing this. flying toy which at its axial center has an tis obvious that besides using the foot to 25 opening to accommodate a rod or centering impart a portion of the power to the spin, it pin 2 which extends from a handle 3. On may be used to do all of the work. In this two divergently arranged pins 5 which are the primary useof the hook 10, is to slidably 30 designed to engage opposite edges of the engage the cord duringa pull, its secondary blades of the toy at or near the axis thereof use as a means for slidably engaging the When positioned on the centering rod. cord and properly directing it away from designates a cord the free end of which the spool when foot power alone is used, is has a loop 8 which is designed to engage a within the scope of the invention. Sum- 35 hook 9 projecting from the lower end of the larly the secondary use of hook 9 as a means handle. This cord is wound around the for slidably securing the cord to the handle, spool, which latter is preferably reduced to is Within the scope of the invention. accommodate the cord. The unwinding of By means of my invention an operator is the latter'is facilitated by the employment enabled to hold the toy in an easy manner 40 of a hooked finger piece 10, which is shown to insure the direction of flight, and an acas being made from a single piece of wire celerated speed may be imparted to the toy bent back upon itself and having hooks 12 from the spool by the expenditure of com for engaging the cord, the wire being looped paratively little energy. i

to accommodate one or two fingers of the A though the primary object of the 1nvenoperators hand. The cord may be of any tion is to provide a simple and highly efiiunder the foot of the operator so that by device may also-be used to I'BVOlWB spinning pressing his leg downwardly foot-power toys which do not fly. may be utilized for unwinding the cord from. I claim as my invention: cord to the handle and pulling outwardly on a spinning part, a support for the latter, a the cord by means of the finger piece, or by cord designed to be wound on the spinning foot-power, the speed of the hand is reduced part andlsecured at its free end to the sup to one-half for a given speed of unwinding port, and a hook separate from said support the cord, and at the same time the-stationary for slidably engaging the cord at a point on the spool having a loop between the spinning part and the end thereof which is fastened to the support.

2. A spinning device for toys comprising a spool, a support for the latter having a centering rod, a cord designed-to be woun and secured at its free end to the support, and means for pulling the cord at a. point between the spool and the end thereof ,which is fastened to the support, said means movable relatively to' said support. e 3'.'In combination with a toy, rotating the same comprising a part, a'support for the latter, a cord designedto be wound on the spinning'part and securedatits free end to the support, and means fon'engaging said cord andincreasing the speed thereof at that of the engaging 4. A spinning device for'devices compri ing a handle, a centering rod extending-from one end thereof, a spool mounted on said centering rod, a hook at the other'end of said handle, a cord wound on said spool and at its free end tor.v engaging a hook for slidably engaging means.

said hook and the cord.

5. In combination with a axial opening, of a spinning toy comprising a'handle, a centering rod tending from one end of designed to extend through said toy having an device for said axial opening, a spool, divergent pins carried by said 7 to the spinning means for, spinning the spinning partover I means for slidably engagingthe cord said handle and spoolfor engaging the axis, a cord wound on said spool and secured at its free end to the handle, and a means for slidably engaging thecord between the spool and the fastened end of the cord. 6; A spinning ning part,a support therefor, a cor designed to be wound onthe spinning part, means on said support located axially with reference the cord, and further means for; slidably engaging'the cord between the pointwhere i leaves the spinning part and the point where" the first mentioned siidit passes through ab lzy engagingmeansning part, a support therefor, a c'orddesigned to be wound on the spinning pagt,

etween its extremity and the point where it is wound on the spinning part, and means for attaching the free end oi said cord, after winding, to said support at a point which lies approximately in an extension of the axis of the spinning part. In, testimony whereof, specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES MORGAN OLMSTED.

JAMES MORGAN.

device comprising a spm- A spinning device comprising a spin- I havesigned thistoy at or near. its

part for slidably engaging V 

